Word: patentable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while serving in France, is still the basic circuit of AM radio. In 1939, he perfected a method for eliminating static (now known as FM). A professor of electrical engineering at Columbia University for the last 20 years, the earnest, driving inventor earned millions of dollars in patent royalties, died a rich...
...section. They had been anticipated by Nicholas C. Christofilos, a U.S. citizen of Greek extraction who had been stranded in Greece during World War II and had taught himself physics from books distributed by the Germans. In 1953 he revealed that he had applied in 1950 for a U.S. patent on a "strong focusing" system much like the one developed at Brookhaven. His patent rights have been recognized, and Christofilos is working happily at Brookhaven...
...Hong Kong last week, a local movie star endorsed a popular patent medicine with the ultimate tribute: "It cures you like Buddha." Hong Kong itself, for more than 100 years the warehouse of the Far East, was also taking a cure. Amid cries of street hawkers and the deafening uproar from a string of 100,000 firecrackers to drive off evil spirits. Hong Kong's Governor Sir Alexander Grantham stepped up to a huge, towered gate decorated with neon lights, elaborate flowers and the Union Jack. Snipping a ribbon, he opened a powerful testimonial to the cure...
...cigarette machine-making subsidiary of James Duke's tobacco trust, A.M.F. became an independent firm after the trust was broken up in 1911. Under the presidency of Rufus Lenoir Patterson, who had been an American Tobacco Co. vice president, A.M.F. developed the first cigarmaking machine. With a patent monopoly in the field, A.M.F. was able to charge the entire cost of the machine (about $4,800) upon installation, then collect a royalty of $1 for every 1,000 cigars produced. The company then expanded into bakery machines and specialized sewing machines, many of which it also rented...
Hardening Arteries. He began to look for a new machine for a relatively unmechanized market. A.M.F. got the patent rights for a crude model of a pinspotting machine from Fred Schmidt, the inventor, even though nobody before had ever succeeded in perfecting such a device. Finally, after 14 years, a satisfactory model was produced...